Buradasınız

Anasayfa » Content

Testing Household Economies of Scale in Uzbekistan

Journal Name:

  • Eurasian Journal of Business and Economics

Publication Year:

  • 2011

Key Words:

Author Name
Abstract (2. Language): 
This paper investigates empirically the relationship between household economies of scale and consumption in Uzbekistan. Particular attention is paid to the so-called “zero consumption problem” and Tobit estimator is utilized to deal with the problem. Using the household survey dataset made available recently, we test presence (or lack) of household economies of scale in seven different consumption categories (food, meals out, clothing, education, health, transportation and shelter). We find evidence of strong and positive household economies of scale in consumption of meals out, clothing, education, health, transportation and shelter, while consumption of food fails to indicate this pattern. We also estimate food Engel curve using non-parametric kernel estimates and fail to find the existence of household economies of scale through food consumption data.
Bookmark/Search this post with
FULL TEXT (PDF): 
PDF icon arastirmax-testing-household-economies-scale-uzbekistan.pdf
  • 7
25-51
  • English

JEL Codes:

REFERENCES

References: 

Barten, Anton (1964). Family Composition, Prices, and Expenditure Patterns. In Economic
Analysis for National Economic Planning, edited by Peter Hart, Gordon Mills and John
Whitaker, London: Butterworth.
Beatty, Timothy K.M. (2006). Zero Expenditures and Engel Curve Estimation, Paper prepared
for presentation at the American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Long
Beach, California, July 23-26.
Deaton, Angus and Christina Paxson (2003). "Engel.s What? A Response to Gan and Vernon."
Journal of Political Economy 111 (6): 1378-1381.
Deaton, Angus, and Christina Paxson (1998). Economies of Scale, Household Size, and the
Demand for Food.” Journal of Political Economy 106 (October): 897–930.
Engel, Ernst (1895). Die Lebenkosten Belgischer Arbeiter-Familien Fruher und Jetzt,
International Statistical Institute Bulliten 9, pp. 1-74.
Gardes, Francois and Christophe Starzec (2000). "Economies of Scale and Food Consumption:
A Reappraisal of the Deaton-Paxson Paradox."Working Paper No. 2000-08, TEAM, University
of Paris I, Pantheon-Sorbonne.
Gibson, John (2002). "Why Does the Engel Method Work? Food Demand, Economies of Size
and Household Survey Methods." Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 64 (4): 341-
359.
Gibson, John and Bonggeun Kim (2007). "Measurement Error in Recall Surveys and the
Relationship between Household Size and Food Demand." American Journal of Agricultural
Economics 89 (2): 473 - 489.
Horowitz, A. W. (2002). Household Size and the Demand for Food: A Puzzle Resolved?
University of Arkansas Economics Department Working Paper WP016-0702
Houthakker, H. S. (1957). An International Comparison of Household Expenditure Patterns,
Commemorating the Centenary of Engel's Law. Econometrica, Vol. 25, No. 4 (Oct.), pp. 532-
551
Ito, S., E. Peterson, and W. Grant (1989), "Rice in Asia: Is It Becoming an Inferior Good"?
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 71:32-42.
Laraki, Karim (1990). Ending Food Subsidies: Nutritional, Welfare, and Budgetary Effects, The
World Bank Economic Review, Vol. 3, No. 3, 395-408
Logan, T. D. (2010). Economies of Scale in the Household: Puzzles and Patterns from the
American past. Forthcoming in Economic Inquiry. Article first published online: 11 MAR 2010
McCracken, Vicki A. and Jon A. Brandt (1987). Household Consumption of Food-Away-from-
Home: Total Expenditure and by Type of Food Facility. American Journal of Agricultural
Economics, Vol. 69, No. 2. (May), pp. 274-284.
Nelson, Julie A. (1988). Household Economies of Scale in Consumption: Theory and Evidence,
Econometrica Vol. 56, No. 6 (Nov.), pp. 1301-1314
Perali, Federico (2008). The second Engel law: Is it a paradox? European Economic Review,
Volume 52, Issue 8, November 2008, Pages 1353-1377
Vernon, Victoria (2005). "Food Expenditure, Food Preparation Time, and Household
Economies of Scale." Unpublished Manuscript, Fashion Institute of Technology, State
University of New York.

Thank you for copying data from http://www.arastirmax.com